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Roush Rules!! Roush Dispatch The Amazing Race's Grand Finale Phil Keoghan greets winning team members TK and Rachel at the finish line by Monty Brinton/CBSIts so rare in the world of reality TV when everything ends just how I want it to. Cheers all around to the latest cycle of The Amazing Race, one of the most enjoyable runnings of the around-the-world competition in a long while. Rare for this or any show, in Sundays finale we were left with three teams you could easily root for instead of against. That said, my favorite team won, and the runners-up each walked away chagrined but hardly bitter, given the family bonding (between father and daughter, grandfather and grandson) that occurred along the way.Sundays satisfying finale came on the heels of last weeks thrilling penultimate episode, an exhilarating nail-biter that found Zen couple TK and Rachel coming from behind (having survived a last-place finish the week before on a non-elimination leg, which forced them to perform an extra speed bump challenge) and squeaking into the final three. This bumped the annoying and constantly squabbling Nate and Jen, the latter a non-stop headache who earned every bit of the bad karma that resulted in her being bounced on her birthday.The final leg, which took the teams from Taipei to Anchorage, Alaska, was pretty closely contested, although there never seemed much of a chance for Nick and Don (the grandson-grandfather duo) to cross the finish line first. Still, Don holds the record for the oldest contestant (at 69) to make it to the end. Well done. If anything, the younger player was the liability at the end, not reading the clue closely enough and leaving the gear behind at the outdoor-supply store, putting them behind on the fish-gutting challenge. (The fact that TK and Rachel made the mistake of going into the crab tankouchkept things competitive.)While Christina and Ron managed to stay ahead for most of the final leg, having found their groove (and Ron his humanity) over the last few weeks to become the dominant team, everyone caught up at the brain-teasing final challenge, in which they had to group together items representing each leg of the race. Rachel figured out the puzzle first, clinching the win as they sprinted to the finish line.Everyone found reason to celebrate at the end of this race: TK and Rachel for coming from behind to win, Ronald and Christina for strengthening their bond, and Nick and Don for proving that age and a generation gap arent necessarily deterrents in this game.The only thing I would criticize in any of this is CBSs scheduling of this crown jewel in its reality arsenal. Rushed on the air in the wake of Viva Laughlins fast fade, the show burned off episodes on the Sundays before Christmas and New Years (when even the most devoted fan tends to have better things to do), and the finale aired on one of the biggest football nights of the year (airing directly opposite the genuinely exciting Packers-Giants battle, which went into overtime). I often get asked by frustrated fans if a network is actively trying to kill or harm a show. I almost never answer in the affirmative, but in this case, you cant help but wonder.Of course, the scheduling is out of the hands of those talented people who make The Amazing Race so amazing. Once again, the show proved why it has won the reality-competition Emmy every year since the category was established. No reason to think it wont take it home again this year. http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Roush-Dispatch/Amazing-Races-Grand/800031444
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Trulia Expands Services With Personalized Agent Search
Today, Trulia introduced a new feature called Find an Agent to help connect prospective home buyers and sellers with real-estate professionals. Though the company already offers an agent directory, users will now be able to search Trulia for a real-estate agent based on experience, local expertise, sales history and client recommendations. The company said it developed the tool as another form of "word of mouth," and due to the increasing importance of matching people with the right agent to help navigate changing and competitive market conditions.


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(CNN) -- The summit of the Hahnenkamm looms large over the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbuhel, more than 1,700 meters above sea level.
A myriad of ski slopes meander down the mountain in winter, the most famous of which is the notorious "Streif."
Translated as "streak," it is the ultimate in downhill courses, and the World Cup race it hosts every January is often run in ludicrously treacherous conditions.
Watched by celebrities, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Europe's jet set, it is often referred to as "the Super Bowl of skiing."
The winner each year attains virtually legendary status within the skiing community, while its famous sections such as the Mausefalle and Steilhang -- taken at speeds of about 90 mph -- have become bywords in the Austrian lexicon.
At the start gate, insignias bearing the names of its most illustrious sons and daughters take pride of place: Franz Klammer, who won the prestigious downhill four times; Fritz Strobl, a three-time winner; and, most recently, Urban Zemmer, a 42-year-old Italian farmer with a Germanic name.
Zemmer's wins on the Streif, though, have come in very different fashion -- and indeed a month after the main event -- as he switches skis for spikes and tackles the course uphill rather than down.
As maverick events go, Vertical Up is right up there.
The night race, now in its fourth year, features multinational competitors from across Europe -- some choosing cross-country skis and poles -- testing their mettle in subzero temperatures.
From the chalets in the valley below, it looks like an eerie blur of lights as the runners in their head torches disappear up the slopes at varying degrees of speed. The goal is simple -- the first one to the top wins.
That has tended to be Zemmer, who holds the course record of 32 minutes. The climb, parts of which are virtually vertical, is 3,312 meters in distance with an uphill in total of 860m.
By day, Zemmer gets up at 6 a.m. to deal with the cattle on his farm. By night it appears he likes nothing more than careering up a mountainside ... at speed. But why exactly?
"Everyone thinks of the Streif in the sense of downhill racing -- the Vertical Up offers an absolutely new possibility of becoming a Streif conqueror with the bottom-up method," he tells CNN.
"Plus I'm now honored by an insignia at the top of the next to the great names like Franz Klammer."
So determined is he to exercise when his working day is done -- Zemmer competes in summer mountain races, likes to cycle and run with his dog, and even his holidays are spent traveling to races -- that he admits: "I have no idea of boredom."
The first event came into being by word of mouth and, continuing in that same vein, it has become more and more popular.
A relatively modest crowd gathers at the bottom but, the whole way up it, crowds hug the advertising hoardings.
"You can feel the enthusiasm and that's very motivating to push myself forward and give the best in order to reach the finish in a good time," Zemmer says.
"In every race, you get yourself to the limit, sometimes even further. And in the race I am totally by myself. After the start, I can't see or hear anything. I am just totally focused on my aims.
"The victory is just the reward for all the struggle and the acknowledgment for all the deprivation, which you have to accomplish in sport."
The motto for the Streif downhill is that the best form of defense is attack, and it is something Zemmer adheres to, although the rest of the competitors, who vary massively in their standard, are not always so gung-ho.
Among them is former cyclist Gerrit Glomser, an ex-Tour de France competitor and a two-time Tour of Austria winner in his heyday. In the Vertical Up, he does not aspire to victory, although he boasts a top-10 finish in his three outings to date.
His inspiration to tackle the slopes came from seeing Austrian skiing great Hermann Maier enter the prologue of the 2003 Tour de France, a race in which Glomser also took part.
He had thought of being one of the skiers who help prepare the Streif for the World Cup event but, perhaps rightly, he decided it was too dangerous so opted for uphill instead.
"This is a challenge but more than that it's fun with friends," says Glomser. "It's not a goal to win but I want to do my best. It's not like I'll be disappointed in 17th or 39th or whatever.
"This is about good times on a route which downhillers have come down a few weeks before... fast."
But it is not all fun for the competitors.
"When you get to the end, it's just a relief," Glomser admits. "There's a 100-meter vertical climb at one point during which it feels like your chest is up at your throat. It's hard but then you finish, you get a warm drink and it's joy."
For an athlete who has tackled the Tour's toughest cycling ascents, Glomser is more naturally prepared than other entrants.
"Running up hills is quite normal for me," adds the 38-year-old. "It's hard to compare pushing in the pedal with running uphill but it's something that suits me.
"But it's totally different to the Tour. It's not like anything else, running up ice in spikes. It's -10 degrees but a short-sleeve T-shirt could be fine as you get warm really fast."
British competitor Paul Doyle, a 26-year-old with a best Vertical Up time of 46 minutes, has been a resident in Kitzbuhel since 2005, working as a skiing instructor and also to become a fitness trainer.
At last year's race, he said his heart rate was an average 190 beats per minute -- the normal resting rate is 60-100.
Like Zemmer and Glomser, he has competed in every Vertical Up to date, and admits to slight nerves beforehand.
"It gets steep immediately and there's only a tiny bit of respite the whole way," Doyle says.
"At the end, it's like you're trying to run but you just can't, and there's a horrible burning in your legs. It feels like at any second you're going to turn to jelly but then the finish comes.
"Some collapse, some are sick, some are relieved and some are joyous, you feel like you have nothing left.
"I watched Urban's winning race and that's just insane. We all think the downhill guys are nuts, and I guess we're nuts in a different way. This is simply not comparable to anything in the world. It's like a crazy gathering."
A crazy gathering where the only way is up.
Read: Paralympian Matthias Lanzinger learns to ski
Read: Lindsey Vonn -- rebuilding a skiing superstar


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This season The Jets have hired Sports Psychologist and Life Coach, Dr. Gary Barnard to help focus and motivate the team. We're fortunate enough to have been granted access to these closed-door meetings. Here is the transcript for Dr. Gary's session with the team in preparation for their western road trip, beginning in Nashville, Oct. 24.
Hey, guys, good to see you! Grab your pillow, settle in. Great stuff. Look, I know you're all tired and frustrated from that overtime loss to Washington but there's a lot of good you can take away from that performance before you head out on this road trip. First of all – you guys played like winners. Most of you. About half of you. But it's a process, right? Each game we keep adding another piece and then soon we have our perfect sandcastle! Wait, piece… puzzle? We've solved the puzzle? Finished the puzzle? Where did sandcastle come from? Not sure. It's not important. What's important is that we learn our lessons and build from them, right?
What did we learn? We can score! We're getting scored on too but we can at least fight fire with fire. What if we used that fire for defense too? Think about shooting the puck right at the player you're defending against, like he was a goalie – just take a wicked slap shot right at the guy's face and – sorry, Coach, what? Oh, you'd rather they didn't… you'd like to see better positional play. Okay, that's fine. Doesn't really say "fire" to me but I'm not a hockey coach. I'm not telling you how to do your job. I mean, you're the guy who basically told the press you don't have the pieces for success, which though likely true, isn't exactly motivating, is it? Oh, reverse psychology? Oh, I see, so you're the psychologist, now? Ha. Coach, can I see you over in the corner for a minute?
(Whispering) You want my job? Do ya? You wanna deal with the constant whining of spoiled millionaires with performance anxiety? It's like hearing a Greek god complain that his lightning bolts have lost a little sting. Little pissants don't even know how good they have it! Or how about the constant threat of lawsuits or revoking your license for allegedly reckless practices? Does that sound like a good time to you, Coach? I didn't think so. So let's leave the psychobabble to the trained professional, okay?
Okey-doke, fellas, let's look at the big opportunity you have coming up with this road trip! A successful road trip is all about preparation. You have to be mentally tough because there are no comforts of home for you to fall back on. When I was a kid, my mom used to pack our station wagon so full of food and blankets and games and extra clothes that you'd think we were never coming back. For some reason my dad was never on those trips. He worked long hours. My mom would talk about him non-stop though, swearing, "That no good this-and-that!" while chain-smoking in the car – windows rolled up, mind you! They didn't know better in those days. My little sister would be curled up in the back seat with her colouring books. She only used the red or the black crayons but she was very creative. Still is. You want a good ice cream cake, you go down to the DQ on Rochdale blvd. in Regina! She can draw anything in icing; it's incredible.
She once did a Stephen Harper cake for one of his campaign visits. She made him look very handsome, used shaved almonds for his hair, remarkable. Her picture was even in the paper, holding up the cake with the Prime Minister! He let everyone in the restaurant have a piece. Wasn't that nice of him? She said he was real friendly though, apparently, no one ever paid DQ for the cake or any of the burgers his team ate that day. That's just politics, I guess.
Where was I? Oh, right, road trip. Where are you guys off to? Nashville, Dallas, Denver, St. Louis… wow, some real America, there, boys! Bring your guns! I'm joking, you should never carry firearms; it only ends up with your son losing the tip of his finger. But, right, road trips, focus, intention, energy. How do you stay focused on the road? You use each other. This where you really test your sense of teammates…manship. Of teaminess. Team… building. You want to build on each other… like a human pyramid! Right? Like back in grade school! Remember human pyramids? They're super fun. Let's try one right now – biggest guys line up on the bottom – what? No? No one will get hurt, Coach, don't be a fussbudget. Okay, fine, no pyramid. We can still imagine it in our minds: a beautiful tower of teammates reaching high up into the sky. You know what's up there, boys? The Stanley Cup. And you can only get there on one another's shoulders. So when you're out there on the road, conjure up that image, all of you stacked up on one another until you reach your pinnacle.
Alright, who snickered?! Who thinks this is funny? You think I'm here for my health? I got arteries so full of cholesterol they may as well be made of bacon. I'm trying to teach you guys something about trust. When you're out there, in a strange motel playground in Spokane building sandcastles, watching your little sister draw devil horns on every Big Bird in her colouring book while your mom sleeps all day – who's got your back then? Huh? Who's looking after your best interests? Just make the damned mental pyramid. Huh. Sandcastles…
Coach, I'll let you wrap up. I need a cigarette. Have fun in the USA, fellas. Eat some barbeque for me. Put the pillows back in the… yeah, you know the drill. Go Jet 'em!


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Heating with Hay
An innovative stove has cut fuel costs for one southwest Missouri poultry farm
Jason Jenkins
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Jason Jenkins
The sun shines brightly on this early December morning, but its warming rays are of little comfort.
The mercury has lost its grip on the freezing mark, and the north wind that howled all night still whips between the six commercial chicken houses operated by the Youngblood family of Diamond in Newton County.
Though the temperature outside is in the low 20s, the four-day-old chicks inside the houses are warm and toasty. It's nearly 90 degrees inside, thanks to an innovative hay-bale stove the family invented. Not only is the stove keeping the chicks warm, but it's also keeping more profits on the farm.
Martin, the Youngblood's 72-year-old patriarch, has been in the poultry business for about 50 years. He started raising laying hens for egg production, but today he and his sons, 50-year-old Bruce and 42-year-old Doug, raise broiler chickens on contract for Simmons Foods. The family also manages a 300-head cattle herd.
Each year, the New-Mac Electric Cooperative members raise six to seven flocks of chickens, nearly a million birds in all, which in six short weeks grow from tiny chicks to 4.5-pound birds.
Like many poultry producers, the Youngbloods had relied solely on natural gas heat to keep their chicken houses warm. Except for the hottest of summer days, the heat is always running, burning ever-more costly natural gas.
"About three years ago when prices really started coming up, we put about $17,000 worth of gas in just one flock of birds," Bruce says. "It was then we decided we were going to have to figure out another way to heat the houses."
The Youngbloods learned about a farmer in Saskatchewan, Canada, who was heating his poultry houses, home and workshop with a stove that burned flax straw, a by-product of flax seed production. The homemade stove heated water, which was pumped to radiators inside the buildings.
"I gave him a call and we talked for quite a while," Doug recalls. "He gave us some ideas, and we decided we could do it, too. So we built a stove to burn large round hay bales."
After operating their first homemade stove for about nine months — and seeing the potential — they built a second-generation stove that's currently in operation on the farm.
At 8 feet wide, 12 feet long, 10 feet tall and weighing almost 7 tons, the stove resembles an oversized utility shed with its siding-clad exterior. The 7-foot-diameter burn chamber, made of half-inch-thick steel, can hold two large bales at a time. Ashes exit the stove through a hatch in the rear.
The stove's doors are filled with water to prevent them from warping. A manifold exchanges heat from the burn chamber, which can reach 1,500 degrees, to the 4,000 gallons of water surrounding it.
The water reaches 110 to 150 degrees and is pumped to each chicken house through 2-inch pipe. After reaching one of three radiators in each house and transferring its heat to the air, the water returns to the stove to be reheated.
The Youngbloods primarily burn the by-product from a nearby fescue seed operation. The plant material isn't suitable for livestock feed, but in the stove, it has value. Before the Youngbloods offered to buy it, the seed producer had no market for the leftover biomass, but still had to bale it up to get it out of the field.
Two bales burn in the stove for about 10 hours, and the Youngbloods burned about 350 bales last year. At a cost of $13 per bale, they spent less than $5,000, saving nearly $40,000 in gas costs.
"The normal cost to heat one chicken house with natural gas is about $10,000 a year," explains Doug, "so you're talking $60,000 or more for our operation."
Adds Bruce: "Last year, we used $19,300 in natural gas, and this year we'll stay under $20,000, too. The savings have been substantial."
While the stove isn't likely to totally replace gas heat, it is a viable supplement, Bruce says. "If it gets a little cool and the radiators can't take care of it, the gas heaters come on and keep the birds at the right temperature. It takes that edge off."
Heating with the hay bale stove has other advantages. By not burning as much natural gas inside the chicken house, less oxygen is consumed. This reduces the amount of cold, outside air circulated into the house that requires heating. It also reduces the amount of condensation in the building, improving conditions for the chickens.
Though it's made for hay bales, the Youngblood's stove can burn any type of biomass, including wood and corn stubble. The family has filed for a U.S. patent on the design. They're currently working on an improved manifold design, and Doug plans to add a waste-heat recovery system to capture additional heat from the stove's exhaust.
Neighboring farmers have taken notice of the Youngblood's success, and so far, they have orders for four stoves from producers in southwest Missouri. A stove they built for a turkey farmer north of Diamond has even attracted the attention of ConAgra Foods representatives from South Carolina.
The cost for a stove is $40,000 to $50,000, depending on the cost of steel. Bruce estimates a cost of around $5,000 to equip each house. For a standard four-house operation, the total cost would be around $70,000, which is comparable to corn-burning stoves, another alternative heating choice currently on the market.
"With your fuel savings at today's prices, the stove should pay for itself in two and a half to three years," Bruce says. "After that, then you're putting money in your pocket."
For more details on the Youngblood's stove, contact Doug at 417-325-6270 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I had one, I told them it was "misfiring" and sent it back to them, The sent me an updated Forged lower. Still would not get another.
Receiver.screwed up a perfectly good g I upper to make it fit.Anyone else get suckered on one of 'em? I literally took a hammer to that lower after Olympic arms said there was nothing wrong with them. Repeatedly
I had one, I told them it was "misfiring" and sent it back to them, The sent me an updated Forged lower. Still would not get another.
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I got my olympic in 06 and has fit every upper Ive tried, never any problems with mine
Those CAST ones were crap.their forged ones are ok.
I had several cast ones. Yes, they sucked. I got Olympic to swap them for Forged units, and those were just fine. Never had another issue out of them. Last one went to my Brother, he still shoots it twice a month. All I can say is Meh....
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There's a pawn/gunshop near here that was selling them pre-panic days for about $150 less than wal-mart was selling their lowest priced ones. Many folks I know where real exited about the price and were gonna race out and buy one and asked me what I thought so I started doing some research on the guns. The reviews online were mostly negative, saying that the gun wouldn't feed properly, etc, and forget about getting Oly to fix them, and like stalker said, Oly told many, many people that there was nothing wrong with the gun, that they "didn't know how to load and operate the weapon properly". Many of these folks were prior military or law enforcement, so I would think if they said the damn thing didn't work, it didn't work. Some said they bought it for the low price only to have to replace the lower out of their own pocket after Oly refused to make it right. I was able to steer the folks that talked to me away from them. Overall the verdict was either you get one that works or it don't.
Clan MacPherson
Another thing Oly told folks to do was to modify their mags so the gun would work. Really?
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Man after I buggered my good upper it still had to be forced right to left to get the rear take down pin to hammer in.for the first mag.swear to God that lower stretched to fit! I disassembled it kept the good parts and literally beat that lower apart.I'm not that quick to trip now but at the time I didn't think Olympic would take it back since they were so busy defending them and I didn't want anyone else to get screwed with it.
OlympicArms was one of the first to produce the AR in pistol form. When it was announced that it would also be produced in 7.62X39, the owner was asked if he was worried about what would happen to the supply of cheap (steel projectile) ammo and the effects on the shooting public. It was widely reported at the time that his response was one word; PHUQUE'EM. I've had no time for that company ever since.
way back when i was at a gunshow in the early 90s i looked at an olympic rifle -- it was the roughest ar-15 i had ever seen -- i don't know which lower it had--probably cast. don't know how or if it ran. maybe it was better than it looked but somehow i doubt it--
so rough it made the hydramatic m16 look like a piece of art--LOL -- and they had the nerve to ask $600 for the POS too--
but there was this guy selling FN-FALs for $220 with the scope and mount and he threw in 20 mags--LOL!
i bet the olympics were slow sellers--


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The financial crisis of 2008 brought to mind the possibility of a major economic collapse. Since then, there has been an increase in the number of individuals who believe another, possibly worse collapse could emerge. There are certainly a number of factors that could support such a disaster. In this post, we'll discuss some of these factors and what investors can do to help shield themselves from it.
This may well be the weakest post-recession recovery since the Great Depression. Actually, the recoveries following the recessions in 1990 and 2000 were also very weak. However, this time around, even with the massive monetary infusion courtesy of the Fed, our economy is still muddling along at a 2% growth rate. Further evidence is found in the apparent nervousness of investors; at the mere hint that the Fed might reduce its QE, stocks tumbled. Then there's Europe. Recently, France's president said that the crisis was over. Over? Really? Couple this with Japan's 24-year deflationary dilemma and China's export economy slowing and you have a recipe for a global economic fallout. This is the case even though a large portion of the world's central banks are aggressively expanding their money supply.
It's not my intent to forecast, prognosticate or portend such a disaster, but to discuss what we as advisors can do to help our clients if it should appear. With that, I'd like to move to the solution.
In past years, I have used mutual funds for the majority and ETFs for a small portion of portfolios. This is mainly because there are so many quality mutual funds to fill the traditional stock and bonds categories. Until the past couple of years, I believe this was the case and that ETFs were stronger in the alternative space. Today, I think this has changed as there are a number of excellent quality ET's for the stock and bond categories.
Here's the idea. Let's assume you can identify good quality ETFs in every category in which you invest. In short, there would be few, if any, mutual funds in the portfolio. By adding trailing stop orders (TSO) to each ETF, with a predetermined percentage, you could effectively place a safety net under the portfolio in the event markets collapsed. However, if prices rise, the TSO would rise with it, and at some point, the TSO would be equal to and even higher than the original purchase price. This would guarantee a profit. To reiterate, if the doomsayers are wrong, and markets rise, the TSO would rise as well. If the chicken-little syndrome does materialize, then you have a predetermined downside on the portfolio.
If this is unclear, send me an email and I'll make sure to go into more detail in my next post.
Until then, thanks for reading and have a great week!


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Production stills from Judy Radul, World Rehearsal Court, 2009.
A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law and Aesthetics is an anthology published by Sternberg Press and Henie Onstad Art Center in Oslo, accompanying Judy Radul's exhibition "World Rehearsal Court." Radul's work is a research project into the model of the International Criminal Court, complexly considering the effect technology and new media have had on our justice systems. Her work is a four-hour, seven-channel video installation that includes a courtroom staged and shot in a gymnasium, with a scripted text that takes the forms of vignettes, so that "you never get a whole picture" (Judy Radoul in an interview for Artforum), while including the viewers, who are filmed and projected onto screens that form part of the installation.
Edited by Radoul and Oslo-based curator and art historian Marit Paasche, A Thousand Eyes introduces a different way of discussing the idea of law and the modern justice system in a way that is different than commonplace representation of law and lawmaking in the visual arts. Whereas the form of the trial has been commonly used in artworks, performances, and symposia in the contemporary art world (I am thinking, for example, of Hila Peleg's film documenting Anton Vidokle and Tirdad Zolghadr's A Crime Against Art [The Madrid Trial], where the artist and curator put themselves on trial for "collusion with the bourgeoisie and other serious accusations"), the discussion of law and lawmaking in the arts has largely focused on subjects of intellectual property, artistic freedom, and censorship (for example, in Daniel McClean's (ed.) excellent book The Trials of Art [London: Ridinghouse, 2007]). This book introduces and promotes an intricate web of ways of thinking about the relationship between visual media and the law.
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Emotional help
You may feel you need the support that comes from sharing thoughts and feelings with others. Some days you may need a "sympathetic ear," someone who will listen and not judge. Other days you may need a safe place to "vent." Friends and family can help, or you may find it useful to talk to others who have lived with or worked with caregivers.
Support groups
A support group can give you a place to talk with other caregivers who understand the disease and know just what you are going through.
It gives you an opportunity to share your own experiences, get practical suggestions that can help you in your daily caregiving while letting you help others. A support group can also help you manage stress and feel less isolated.
Some groups are targeted to spouses or adult children. Contact your local Alzheimer Society for a list of support groups in your area.
One-on-one support
Not everyone is comfortable participating in a group. Sometimes, talking one-on-one to someone who has gone through the experience of caring for a person with dementia (peer support) can be very helpful.
It can also be helpful to talk with a trained professional or counsellor. You may find counsellors or peer support through your local Alzheimer Society or look for a social worker through your public health department, health centre or family service agency. Your family doctor may also know of counselling resources in your community.
Another way to look after your emotional needs is with humour. Humour can work wonders by helping you cope with caregiving demands. Some days it will be possible to laugh, others it may not be. Look for the humour in day-to-day situations. See a funny movie. Laugh with friends.
The Forums (Message Board)
The Forums on this site are another place to share ideas and support with other caregivers. You might find this online discussion forum helpful.


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Season 6, Ep. 601
Picnic in the Country
Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball the secrets to making perfect Honey Fried Chicken. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top picks for cutting boards. And finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster shares the test kitchen's tips for quick homemade chicken broth and updates an old-fashioned recipe for Amish Potato Salad.


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Shouting or expressing anger is not only more acceptable for men in the workplace, it prompts observers to confer a lower status on women who express anger at work, both in terms of viewing women as less competent and as less deserving of a higher salary. In this summary of the research from the Yale School of Management,
The study participants, all working adults, watched a video of job interviews in which the men and women interviewees were asked to describe a time when something went wrong at work and whether it made them feel angry or sad. After watching the video, the participants were asked to rate them on factors such as their status and the salary they should earn. The angry man was perceived as higher status, more competent, more likely to be hired, and given the highest salary. The angry woman was viewed as lower status and less competent than both the angry and sad men, and the sad woman. She also earned $14,000 less than the angry man and $5500 less than her sad female counterpart.Why does that happen? It's in part because we attribute men's anger to external causes--things to which anyone might have a strong reaction--and women's anger to internal factors, as in "she's an angry person" or "she's out of control." Brescoll's research also found a bonus for women who express anger: If you can share why you got angry in a short, straightforward two-sentence explanation, observers will credit you with almost as much status as the angry man and feel that you have as much status, in terms of salary worth. Men, on the other hand, tend to drop in status when they start to explain why they got angry--so much so, they're better off not trying to do so. Brescoll notes, "There are situations at work where anger is normal, but women have to be careful. You have to walk a fine line between not being completely unemotional and appearing cold and not displaying emotion that will harm you and have negative consequences."
You can read Brescoll's study Can an angry woman get ahead? Status conferral, gender and expression of emotion in the workplace. Do you think women and men are treated differently at work when they express anger? Share your observations in the comments.


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WASHINGTON — Fannie Mae, the nation's second largest financial institution, forced out two top executives as it struggles to deal with an accounting scandal which will likely force it to wipe out $9 billion in profits over the past four years.
Fannie Mae chief executive Franklin Raines and J. Timothy Howard, the company's chief financial officer, stepped down Tuesday after lengthy negotiations between the Fannie Mae board and the company's chief government regulator, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.
In a statement issued late Tuesday night, Raines said he had decided to leave to fulfill a pledge he made during congressional testimony in October that he would take the blame if serious accounting problems were found at the company.
"By my early retirement, I have held myself accountable," Raines said.
A Fannie Mae statement announced that Howard had also resigned. The company said it had hired an executive search firm to find replacements for the two men.
Industry and congressional sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Fannie Mae's board had been pressured by OFHEO during tense negotiations over the past several days to demand the resignations of both Raines and Howard.
OFHEO Director Armando Falcon Jr. said in a statement that his agency had determined that Fannie Mae, the biggest player in the nation's $8 trillion mortgage market, had been left "significantly undercapitalized" because of its accounting problems.
He said the Fannie Mae board was to be commended for the steps it was now taking to address those problems. "We are encouraged that the board's announcement signals a new culture and a new direction for Fannie Mae," Falcon said.
A review by the Securities and Exchange Commission determined last week that Fannie Mae must restate earnings back to 2001 because it violated accounting rules for derivatives — financial instruments used to hedge against interest-rate swings — and for some prepaid loans.
That restatement of earnings is likely to wipe out $9 billion — or about one-third — of Fannie Mae's profits — since 2001.
To make up the anticipated $9 billion shortfall, Fannie Mae probably would have to sell part of its portfolio of mortgages, raise fresh capital by issuing stock or cut dividends — and its spectacular growth of recent years could be curtailed. The company was ordered by the regulators in September to boost its capital cushion against risk by some $5 billion by mid-2005.
In addition to OFHEO's investigation, the SEC is continuing its own probe and the Justice Department is pursing a criminal investigation.
Fannie Mae, long a Wall Street darling, is the biggest buyer and guarantor of home mortgage loans in the United States and is the country's second largest financial institution behind Citigroup Inc.
The revelations of accounting problems in September pushed Fannie Mae's stock down by 13 percent to a 52-week low of $62.95. Fannie Mae shares have recovered slightly in recent weeks, settling 93 cents higher Tuesday at $70.35 on the New York Stock Exchange before the announcement of the management shake-up.
Fannie Mae said it would install Daniel Mud, currently the company's chief operating officer and the son of veteran television newsman Roger Mud, as interim chief executive, while Fannie Mae board member Stephen Ashley will serve as non-executive company chairman.
Howard will be replaced on an interim basis as chief financial officer by Fannie Mae executive vice president Robert Leaven, the company said. It said it had also dismissed it's auditing firm, KPMG, and had begun a search for a new auditing company.
Raines' abrupt departure represented a sharp reversal of fortune for one Washington's most influential and politically savvy figures. When he was selected to head Fannie Mae in 1999, Raines became the first black CEO of a major U.S. corporation.
Raines, 55, had been successful in fending off efforts by competitors and congressional critics to strip away some of the privileges the company enjoyed as a government-sponsored enterprise, which allowed Fannie Mae to borrow money at below-market rates because investors believed if the company ever got into financial trouble, the federal government would step in and bail it out.
However, a blistering report by OFHEO, which was made public in September, cast doubt on Fannie Mae's past earnings reports and even its financial soundness. OFHEO raised the possibility that the company had employed deliberate accounting maneuvers designed to meet earnings targets and thereby bring bigger bonuses to top executives.
Raines and Howard defended the company's accounting in sworn testimony at a congressional hearing in October.
In a statement, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., the chairman of a House Financial Services subcommittee that oversees Fannie Mae, said: "Given the unbelievable statements Fannie executives made at our last hearing, this action was entirely necessary."
The problems at Fannie Mae were similar to accounting difficulties encountered by its smaller competitor, Freda Mac, which emerged from its own accounting scandal and executive shake-up after disclosing in June 2003 it had misstated earnings by $5 billion.
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by Chris Parker
Copyright s8int.com 2009
Photo: Umm El-Kanatir art from 400 to 700 A.D.
In wonder we were viewing our Cambodian Stegosaur
When some guy with a monocle burst through the back door
He took out a pen with indelible ink
Said if anyone moves your precious stego's extinct
We advanced on him slowly, couldn't believe he would do-it
But then he took his pen and drew a red line clear through it
Alas, poor Stegosaurus, we knew him well
You looked like a dinosaur but now no one can tell
Before making his escape at the back of the residence
He said; Man and dinosaur didn't coexist, so I'm destroying the evidence
We've put together a selection of ancient dinosaur depictions which have in common the fact that they all appear on or within a religious "temple" or cathedral. Currently, one of the most well-known of these depictions is the alleged stegosaurus depiction at the Ta Prohm Temple near Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
This stegosaurus depiction (or so it seems to be) has been debunked in the mind of skeptics by the fairly simple measure of drawing a line through the depiction's most prominent feature—the armor plating along it's back.
One can make up their own mind about the depiction as we review it again below. Our section on Dinosaurs in History and Art is extensive enough that we can now categorize the artifacts in a number of different groupings. Although the Cambodian stegosaur may well be the most famous depiction in the world currently, we could argue that there are even more compelling dinosaur depictions at other temple, synagogue or cathedral sites, some of which we review here..
Bi-Pedal Dinosaur and Giant Creature Attack Horse
Umm El-Kanatir
Jewish Synagogue 400-700 A.D.
Excavated in 2007
Um el Kanatir (Umm el-Kanater) is an ancient Roman town on the Golan Heights, now an archeological site being developed into an Archaeological Park. The meaning of the name is "mother of the arches".
The site is named for the water source, a spring that pours from the face of a cliff into three basins carved of stone in antiquity. Each of the basins was surmounted by a Roman monumental arch of cut basalt. It is assumed that the niches between the arches originally held pagan images of the spirit of the waters.
Two of the arches are now in ruins, but one survives intact. They, and the village site, continued to be used into the modern period not as a town but by small numbers of local farmers and shepherds living amid and atop the ruins of the ancient town, sometimes in homes constructed out of ancient blocks of building stone reconstructed into farm houses.
…It is believed that the income generated by the linen industry enabled the villagers to construct the very large sixth-century synagogue. Interestingly, the synagogue appears to have been built on the site of a more modest, fifth century synagogue. The large synagogue was destroyed the catastrophic Golan earthquake of 749.
The building was 18 meters (60 feet) long by 13 meters (43 feet) wide and calculated to have been 12 meters (40 feet) high, making it one of the largest ancient synagogues in the region.
Neither the synagogue nor the town were rebuilt after the earthquake of 749. The synagogue was first identified by Laurence Oliphant and Gottlieb Schumacher in 1884. The surviving elements of the ancient synagogue.
Photo:Umm El-Kanatir art from 400 to 700 A.D. Comparison with Cryolophosaurus and Dilophosaurus, two crested theropod dinosaurs.
Theropod dinosaurs were bi-pedal animals with two much smaller arms which they held close to their chests. They were fiercesome meat eaters like which included tyrannosaurus and giganotosaurus.
The creature depicted joining the fray here is clearly a bi-pedal dinosaur with a distinctive head crest, a terrible aspect, and two huge thighs. The tail can be discerned by those at the site if not from the photos. This depiction also shows that the dinosaur has three toes and a hind claw, just like tyrannosaurus.
The head crest on a theropod dinosaur is somewhat unusual but there are a number of known theropods with a crest, including Cryolophosaurus, meaning "cold crest lizard"). Cryolophosaurus was a large theropod dinosaur, with a bizarre crest on its head that looked like a Spanish comb.
Cryolophosaurus was excavated from Antarctica's Early Jurassic Hanson Formation (former the upper Falla Formation) by paleontologist Dr. William Hammer in 1991…Wikipedia
Another theropod with a head crest is Dilophosaurus. Both Cryolophosaurus and Dilophosaurus are both shown here in comparison to the dinosaur depictions at Umm El-Kanatir. This depiction may not be of either of these theropod dinosaurs but it clearly is a depiction of a theropod with a distinctive crest.
The "horse" is being directly attacked by a very large creature, possibly a reptile; possibly a feline.
Ceratopsian Dinosaur Depiction at Muktinath Temple
Site of 108 'Dragon Headed" Fountains
The Muktinath Temple was consecrated in 1815 A.D by Queen Subarna Prabha, the wife of Rana Bahadur Shah. This temple is built in a Tibetan pagoda style and contains huge brass idols of Lord Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma and Kali. The local name for Muktinath is Chumig Gyatsa….Source: Pilgrimage Tours
On a wall of the temple are 108 "dragon headed" fountains which pilgrims seek out to "cleanse" themselves. Actually, the heads are variously described as; dragons or bulls.
At least one of the heads, as seen here on the left in this photo, is not a dragon or a bull, but instead is an excellent likeness of a ceratopsian dinosaur.
The temple was "consecrated in 1815". The 108 fountains has been a pilgrimage site for many number of years. Ceratopsian dinosaurs were not really understood in their present form until the late 1800's to the early 1900's, some years after the temple was consecrated. In 1887, a pair of ceratopsian horns were identified as horns of an extinct bison.
When was the ceratopsian depiction created? If in or around 1815, how was such an accurate depiction of a ceratopsian dinosaur created more than 60 years prior to the accurate depiction of these dinosaurs by science—unless someone had actually seen one alive?
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See Also: Evidence of Sophisticated, Ancient, Unknown Culture in Italy Near Caria


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Reiki Is Nonsense
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Reiki is one of several nonsensical methods commonly referred to as "energy healing." These methods are based on the idea that the body is surrounded or permeated by an energy field that is not measurable by ordinary scientific instrumentation. The alleged force, said to support life, is known as ki in Japan, as chi or qi in China, and as prana in India. Reiki practitioners claim to facilitate healing by strengthening or "balancing" it [1].
In a traditional reiki session, the client lies down or sits fully clothed. The practitioner's hands are placed lightly on or just above the client's body, palms down, using a series of 12-15 positions. Each position is held for about 2 to 5 minutes, or until the practitioner feels that the flow of energy—said to be experienced as sensations such as heat or tingling in the hands—has slowed or stopped. Typically, the practitioner delivers at least four sessions of 30 to 90 minutes each. The techniques include "centering," "clearing," "beaming," "extracting harmful energies," "infusing," and "smoothing and raking the aura," all of which are claimed to influence the imaginary "energy" that Reiki advocates postulate.
Reiki can also be self-administered or administered to others at distant locations. Some practitioners say that "spirit guides" help them produce the proper flow of energy.
Background History
The word "reiki" is derived from two Japanese words: rei (universal) and ki (life energy). Current reiki practice can be traced to the spiritual teachings of Mikao Usui in Japan during the early 20th century. Usui's teachings included meditative techniques and healing practices. One of his students, Chujiro Hayashi, further developed the healing practices, placing less emphasis on the meditative techniques. An American named Hawayo Takata learned reiki from Hayashi in Japan and introduced it to Western cultures in the late 1930s [1]. During a recent national survey, about 0.5% of participants said that they had used an "energy healing" therapy during the previous year [2].
In 2009, the Web site of the International Centre for Reiki Training (Kent, England) stated:
Reiki is both powerful and gentle. In its long history of use it has aided in healing virtually every known illness and injury including serious problems like: multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and cancer as well as skin problems, cuts, bruises, broken bones, headache, colds, flu, sore throat, sunburn, fatigue, insomnia, impotence, poor memory, lack of confidence, etc. It is always beneficial and works to improve the effectiveness of all other types of therapy. A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance and has many benefits for both client and practitioner, including altered states of consciousness and spiritual experiences. . . . Reiki will improve the results of all medical treatment, acting to reduce negative side effects, shorten healing time, reduce or eliminate pain, reduce stress, and help create optimism [3].
No special background or credentials are needed to receive reiki training. To become a practitioner, one must receive an "initiation" or "attunement" from a Reiki Master. This ceremony makes one "attuned" to the "universal life energy" and enables one to serve as a conduit for it. There are said to be three different levels of attunement (some teach that there are four). At the higher levels, one can allegedly channel reiki energy and effect healings at a distance, without physical contact. Training for the lower levels typically takes 1 or 2 days and begins with an attunement. Training to become a Master is said to take years. The techniques taught can vary greatly among reiki schools and teachers. Many practitioners are massage therapists. However, no licensing or professional standards exist for the practice of reiki itself. Whether reiki can be considered the unlicensed practice of medicine varies from state to state.
The most comprehensive review of reiki research was done by Edzard Ernst, M.D., Ph.D. and his colleagues at the University of Exeter. After surveying studies published through January 2008, they concluded that most were poorly designed and "the evidence is insufficient to suggest that reiki is an effective treatment for any condition." [4]
In 2009, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops concluded that "reiki therapy finds no support either in the findings of natural science or in Christian belief" and urged Catholic health-care facilities and clergy not to promote or support it. It further stated:
Reiki lacks scientific credibility. It has not been accepted by the scientific and medical communities as an effective therapy. Reputable scientific studies attesting to the efficacy of Reiki are lacking, as is a plausible scientific explanation as to how it could possibly be efficacious. The explanation of the efficacy of Reiki depends entirely on a particular view of the world as permeated by this "universal life energy" (Reiki) that is subject to manipulation by human thought and will. Reiki practitioners claim that their training allows one to channel the "universal life energy" that is present in all things. This "universal life energy," however, is unknown to natural science. As the presence of such energy has not been observed by means of natural science, the justification for these therapies necessarily must come from something other than science [5].
In the mid-1990s, at ages 9 and 10, Emily Rosa demonstrated that 21 therapeutic touch (TT) practitioners could not detect her alleged "energy field." During the tests, the practitioners rested their arms on a flat surface, about a foot apart. Emily then hovered her hand, palm down, a few inches above one of the subject's palms. A cardboard screen prevented the subjects from seeing which of their hands was selected. The practitioners correctly located Emily's hand only 122 (44%) out of 280 trials, which is no better than would be expected by guessing [6]. After the Journal of the American Medical Association published the results, TT leaders called the study a "parlor game," but they refused to suggest an alternative experimental design or to undergo similar tests themselves [7]. It might be interesting to investigate whether reiki practitioners can actually sense or transmit "energy," whether reiki "attunements" actually enhance anything, and whether feelings of warmth are accompanied by any measurable change of skin temperature. Researchers at Scripps Institute (San Diego) recently used a Magnes 2500 WH SQUID device to measure the electromagnetic fields from the hands and heart of three reiki masters when they were (a) not practicing reiki, (b) purportedly transmitting reiki to a distant person, and (c) purportedly transmitting to a person in the room. Similar measurements were made on four reiki-naive volunteers before and after they received a reiki training/attunement enabling them to self-administer reiki. No high-intensity radiation attributable to reiki was found [9].
British Regulatory Action
The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has objected to reiki claims at least five times:
- In 2001, the ASA concluded that the International Reiki and Healing Centre had made unsubstantiated claims about "healing" serious diseases and that a "Doctor of Philosophy in Alternative Medicine" certificate from an Indian school did not entitle the proprietor (Allan Sweeney) to refer to himself as "Dr. Sweeney." [10]
- In 2011, the ASA objected to unsubstantiated claims on Sweeney's Web site that reiki was an effective therapy for cancer, ADHD, back pain, migraine, depression, anger, low energy, sleeplessness, ADD, sadness, bereavement, tinnitus and sciatica [11].
- In 2011, the ASA objected to unsubstantiated claims by "reiki master" Christina Moore of East Sussex, England, that reiki could treat grief, insomnia, tinnitus, lack of confidence, back pain, constipation, Candida, skin disorders, anxiety, stress, tension, worry and phobias [12].
- In 2012, the ASA objected to claims by Jackie Howchin that rieki could treat a "wide range of problems, including stress, depression, bereavement, back pain, fibromyalgia, Myasthenia Gravis, sports injuries, broken bones, sciatica and nerve damage." [13]
- In 2012, the ASA objected to claims by A Better Being that reiki could treat irritable bowel syndrome, hay fever, indigestion, repetitive strain injury, headaches, asthma, eczema, poor circulation, rheumatism and sinusitis [14].
The Bottom Line
Reiki has no substantiated health value and lacks a scientifically plausible rationale. Science-based healthcare settings should not tolerate its use, and scarce government research dollars should not be used to study it further [8].
- Miles P, True G. Reiki: Review of a biofield therapy history, theory, practice, and research. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. 9:62-72, 2003.
- Barnes PM and others. Complementary and alternative medicine use among adults and children: United States, 2007. National Health Statistic Reports, No. 12, Dec 1-0, 2008.
- Experiencing reiki. International Center for Reiki Training Web site, accessed April 18, 2009.
- Lee MS and others. Effects of reiki in clinical practice: A systematic review of randomized clinical trials. International Journal of Clinical Practice 62:947-954, 2008.
- Committee on Doctrine. Guidelines for evaluating reiki as an alternative therapy. U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, March 25, 2009.
- Rosa L and others. A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch. JAMA 279:1005-1010, 1998.
- Sarner L. Therapeutic touch: Responses to objections to the JAMA paper. Quackwatch, April 11,1999.
- Barrett S. Why NCCAM should stop funding reiki research. NCCAM Watch, June 23, 2009.
- Baldwin AL and others. Practicing reiki does not appear to routinely produce high-intensity electromagnetic fields from the heart or hands of reiki practitioners. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 19:518-526, 2013.
- ASA adjudication on the International Reiki and Healing Centre, 15 Aug 2001.
- ASA adjudication on the International Reiki and Healing Centre, 20 July 2011.
- ASA adjudication on Christina Moore, 29 June 2011.
- ASA ruling on Jackie Howchin, 4 Jan 2012.
- ASA ruling on A Better Being, 3 Oct 2012.
This article was revised on August 22, 2015.


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced a series of hearings nationwide to try to find ways to avoid widespread loss of communications among first-responders, emergency managers and the general public in disasters like Superstorm Sandy. "This unprecedented storm has revealed new challenges that will require a national dialogue around ideas and actions to ensure the resilience of communications networks," said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. "As our thoughts and sympathies remain with those who have suffered loss and damage as a result of Superstorm Sandy, I urge all stakeholders to engage constructively in the period ahead," the chairman said. The hearings will begin early next year and will include ways to keep cellphone towers operating after storm damage and power losses. One in four consumers in areas hit hard by Sandy lost service because of the storm. The hearings also will examine how to keep Wi-Fi service operating and discuss backup power sources for cellphone communications. A major focus will involve speeding the recovery of service. Genachowski said the 911 emergency communications system mostly remained in operation during Sandy, but the hearings will explore when new technologies might make the system more effective in a disaster. He also said that once communications were restored for consumers, the service didn't return to normal quality. That will be another topic that is explored. The first hearings will be in the New York City area, Genachowski said. Genachowski thanked U.S. Sen. Charles, D-N.Y., for pushing to "develop a roadmap for how to better protect critical communications functions during major disasters." On Sunday, Schumer urged the FCC to take on a major rethinking of communications in and after disasters. "Mobile communication has become an essential part of our lives, and increasing its reliability must be a top priority," Schumer said Wednesday. Schumer said field hearings will prompt new ideas to avoid the communications losses of Sandy.
FCC seeks ways to secure communications in storms
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ROCHESTER — Police Monday night were investigating four bottle bombs that exploded on a Fieldstone Village lawn.
The homemade explosive devices, which did not cause any injuries, were set off around 9:30 p.m., when emergency personnel responded to a report of an explosion at a mobile home at 48 Fieldstone Village.
Police consulted with the Nashua Bomb Squad, which gave input over the phone on how to handle the situation, said Police Sgt. Anthony Bossi.
By 10:30 p.m., after fire officials left the scene, three remaining police officers interviewed neighbors and scoured the area with flashlights for any evidence. Police Sgt. Eric Babine said Monday night that so far police had no suspects in the incident, and that there has been no indication of why this crime had occurred or who might have set off the explosion.
Babine said bottle bombs can be made at home in a variety of ways, and that while the devices did not cause injury in Monday's case, "It's not something to play with."
"They are dangerous — they can definitely cause injury and damage to property," said Babine.
On Monday, he said the police's investigation will determine which charge would apply to the suspect, if he or she is apprehended. Bossi said the charge could depend on several factors, including proximity of others in the area where the explosion occurred.
He said that residents of the dwelling near which the bottle bombs exploded were home at the time of the incident.
Rochester Police and Fire departments, as well as out-of-town fire departments that had been covering Rochester's station during an award ceremony in Rochester, responded to the incident.
The matter remains under investigation.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact Rochester police at 330-7127.
Four bottle bombs explode on mobile home park lawn in Rochester
ROCHESTER — Police Monday night were investigating four bottle bombs that exploded on a Fieldstone Village lawn.